F1: Cock ups and carnage in Catalunya

Not sending Massa out for a second run in Q1 thinking no one would catch him was arrogant and stupid but with Ferrari's history, perhaps understandable. But that was three races ago. Making the same mistake in Barcelona with Kimi was beyond crazy.

And despite the fact that Kimi's KERS has been a source of constant problems, they ran with it - despite only Ferrari and McLaren doing so. It didn't even get to the start before playing up again. Unfortunately, once the car has been scrutineered with it in, it has to stay in. So he ran a 25kg penalty with no benefit. Then his car broke altogether.

Still Massa had got himself up to fourth in qualifying and so he was set for a good start. And he made the most of it - until 15 laps from the end when his team told him he was going to run out of fuel and he had to slow down. There can be few reasons other than a fuel miscalculation. In the meantime the wheel aero flew off on the main straight.

Trulli fell off on the right of turn two at the start, came back on and caused a massive accident between the two Torro Rossos and Sutil's Force India.

McLaren's pairing had an afternoon that, if described as "miserable" would be overstating it. Koveleinen - having had a new gearbox this weekend on the four-race-per-box schedule - stopped as the new box disintegrated.. This will cost him five places next time out - and in Monaco, that's a serious penalty.

Hamilton spent much of the race complaining of no rear grip. Frankly, he didn't appear to have much grip on the front either. Nor did he have enough power, even with the KERS to be competitive.

BMW put totally new fronts on their cars - but that didn't help as they slipped back into near oblvion.

Ths stewards made a monumental error that they were lucky to escape from - it was a miracle that no one picked up a puncture. The race should have been stopped whilst a clean line was made.

On the other hand, Webber's strategy played him into a third place - which no one really saw coming. Barrichello's mistake - if it was one - was remaining on the three-stop strategy originally set when Button switched to two - but there was only a 13 second gap between them. That was less than a pitstop.